[LHAPDF-announce] LHAPDF V5.8.2 released

[Mike Whalley]

Dear LHAPDF user,

We are pleased to announce the release of version 5.8.2 of LHAPDF.  This
can be downloaded as usual from our website:

http://projects.hepforge.org/lhapdf/

or directly at:

http://www.hepforge.org/archive/lhapdf/lhapdf-5.8.2.tar.gz

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This sub-version contains several new PDF sets...

Version 2.0 of the NNPDF
NNPDF20_100
NNPDF20_1000

The 3 and 5 flavour nlo and nnlo abkm sets
abkm09_3_nlo
abkm09_5_nlo
abkm09_3_nnlo
abkm09_5_nlo

3 cteq modified LO sets
CT09MCS  (2-loop alphas; no momentum sum rule violation)
CT09MC1  (1-loop alphas; with momentum sum rule violation)
CT09MC2  (2-loop alphas; with momentum sum rule violation)

a cteq set with varying alphas (0.116,0.117,0.118,0.119 and 0.120)
cteq66alphas

In addition there are several bug fixes and the addition of code to
allow users to create and interpolate on their own .LHgrid files.  More
details of this will appear on the web site.

A full list of changes can be seen in the ChangeLog on the LHAPDF web page.

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Any problems, as usual send them to lhapdf at projects.hepforge.org

Best regards,

Mike Whalley and Andy Buckley*

IPPP, Durham University, UK

*Andy is now at the Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of
Edinburgh